With Made of Honor now hitting the screens, we're getting even more McDreamy. But being a "made of honor" who wants to crash his best friend's wedding is far from Patrick Dempsey's first gig. There are many other roles in the mix, so Entertainment Weekly has thrown together a list of the actor's 16 "key roles." Now, this isn't all super-star material, since Dempsey dipped out of the spotlight for a while, but the list definitely takes you back in time.

The guy has been around -- from gigolos to road trips, literary adaptations to monkey viruses. (Do you remember him in Outbreak? I completely forgot that he was in that.) It's a pretty decent list. Frankly, I'd forgotten all that came between Can't Buy Me Love and Scream 3.

I have to say -- I like him much more these days. I was one of those people who never liked Can't Buy Me Love. I'd watch it with friends, and their hopeful glances would turn into insidious lasers prodding for a positive reaction. Ronald Miller just wasn't for me. But I realize that I'm in the minority on that one. Sound off below on your favorite Dempsey flick, or if you're not a fan at all, rant about the sensation that is Dempsey.

Due to a snafu (my own fault), I did not have a seat at Tuesday night's Iron Man screening in Philadelphia. So while everybody who is anybody hereabouts was giddily watching Tony Stark transform from an arms dealer to an ass-kicking, metal-suited superhero, I was in a different theater one block away watching Patrick Dempsey be a bridesmaid in Made of Honor. There'll be a Cinematical review of the movie on Friday, but for now I'd like to ask a very specific question: what on earth could that title possibly mean?

Others who have seen the movie have referred to "Made of Honor" as "a pun," or even an "appalling pun." Okay, but a pun usually involves conflating two words or expressions that make sense in the same context and happen to sound alike. In this case, I only count one. Yes, I get it -- Dempsey plays the best friend of a woman who is getting married, and so she names him her maid of honor. It's funny because he's a guy, but he's the maid of honor. Hahaha! Fantastic. But made of honor? What, like built of honor? Who? Patrick Dempsey? I'm not connecting the dots.

In the new Disney movie Enchanted, Patrick Dempsey (aka Dr. McDreamy) shows off some classy moves on the ballroom floor. When he's done, Amy Adams mentions that he had previously told her he can't dance. He corrects her, saying that he can dance, he just doesn't dance (normally, anyway). While watching the scene, I thought to myself: has Giselle (Adams' character's name) never seen Can't Buy Me Love? Of course Patrick Dempsey can dance. In fact, he's able to turn an African ritual into a hot new craze at his high school dance, as you can see in the video above. I wonder who is more embarrassed of that scene from twenty years ago, Disney or Dempsey.

Maybe it's because I'm not female, but I much prefer the Patrick Dempsey of old -- back when he was super dorky, but he could still get a girl by spending $1000 on her or, tables turned, pimping himself out to married women by way of a very special pizza delivery offer. Or, there's that time he accidentally got a female roommate thanks to a college housing error, and she ended up falling for him. But my favorite Dempsey movie is Coupe de Ville, in which he plays my younger brother, while I was played by Arye Gross and my older brother was played by Daniel Stern, as we drive to Florida in the titular old auto. Well, it seemed like that movie was about my brothers and me, anyway.

You'll have to wait until next May to see Disney's ballyhooed Prince Caspian, but the studio has a huge family film coming out in just a few months. That's Enchanted, starring the irrepressible Amy Adams as a fairy tale princess who's engaged to a prince (James Marsden) but banished to the remote aisle of modern-day Manhattan. There, amid the bagels and the bums, she falls for a divorce lawyer (Patrick Dempsey) who strangely is not out to rob her of possessions and her dignity. (By the way, do not, as I have admittedly done, confuse Enchanted with Ella Enchanted, a completely different movie. Get your head out of 2004!)

Sweet but with a snarky side -- there's a scene in which Adams serenades a room full of rats -- Enchanted could make Adams a household name at last, launching her beyond small roles in big movies (Talladega Nights) and starring roles in indies few people saw (Junebug). And it's Dempsey's first romantic comedy lead since ... Loverboy? (That can't be right. Someone correct me.) Marsden, on the other hand, looks to be reprising his "nice guys finish second" routine -- get that guy a new agent, already -- but I will say, Susan Sarandon as the evil queen is such an inspired bit of casting, I can't believe no one's ever thought of doing that before. Certainly she could be the wickedest Disney villainess since Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil. Check out her bad self in the exclusive poster below; Enchanted hits theaters Nov. 21.

Once upon a time, there was an animated princess in a big, poofy white gown who gets thrown into a pit by an ugly, old wart-ridden woman. Unfortunately, this pit leads her animated arse to the real world -- New York actually. Since Gotham really isn't the place for fair princesses, she befriends a McDreamy man and faces the big, tasty apple (not the poisonous one) as her beau, Prince Edward, flies through the same pit with a little chipmunk to try and rescue her. Of course, the harsh city isn't all they have to fight, as the evil Queen Narissa is determined to wreak havoc on the poor fairytale couple.

So, basically, that's the gist of Enchanted, the animated/live action film that stars Amy Adams as the princess, James Marsden as the Prince, Patrick Dempsey as the friendly New Yorker and Susan Sarandon as the evil, witchly foe. After many months of anxious, fairy tale anticipation, there's a direct link to a trailer right here. They really could've done without the cartoon classic lead up, especially since the clips don't actually reflect the Disney bits that the movie is spoofing. Since it's about a girl, a wicked Queen and a Prince, wouldn't clips of Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty be better than The Lion King? But that's just the intro. As for the film itself, I'm not terribly excited. However, I'm sure it will be a solid hit. Adams really knows how to pull off a princess, and I'm sure kids will see it in droves. Me, I just might check it out to see Marsden. I actually like him in this trailer, and I can't remember the last time I didn't groan when he popped on the screen. Maybe Disturbing Behavior?

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Anything is possible. Patrick Dempsey went from a lawnmower-riding heartthrob to being completely off the radar, only to come back again as Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Sheperd on the popular Grey's Anatomy. Sure, he's had a few films of note in between, like his stint as a police detective on Scream 3 and being shafted by Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama, but they haven't inspired sighs of "Oh, Patrick!" like Grey's. While he gets his next chance at movie heartthrob status with Made of Honor, he's getting a very, very surprising directorial Best Man.

While the idea of a Dempsey-headed romantic comedy might inspire you to think of a number of romantic comedy directors, Columbia Pictures is taking a different route. Believe it or not, the film is to be directed by the man who not only brought us a myriad of Bean movies from Merry Mishaps to Perilous Persuits, but also the oh-so-awesome Leonard Part 6 -- yes, I'm talking about the one and only Paul Weiland. Sure, the man is also responsible for Roseanna's Grave, but is that film really enough to keep him in mind for romantic comedies?

As Erik shared in December, Honor follows Dempsey's character, a man in love with a woman (yet uncast) who is engaged to someone else. She asks him to be her "maid" of honor, and he accepts the position, planning to steal her from her current beau -- definitely not a plan made of honor. It's great to see the idea of "maid of honor" get questioned, since men and women are no longer socially divided by sex, but that's pretty much dashed by his scheme to get the girl. I can only hope that they give the woman some credit and not have her heart won by a man who agrees to stand at her wedded side only to get the goods for himself.